Turn On, Or Turn Me Down

This is a Record Store Day 2018 item. It will be available to purchase from our stores from 8am 21st April. Remaining stock will be available to purchase from this page at 00.01 28th April.

An air of mystery surrounds this album, and indeed, even the label on which it was originally released. DJ and percussionist Count Simon de la Bedoyere (aka Simon Stable) set up the Stable label in 1968, only to fold it a year later, but during that brief spell it released a handful of great albums. One of those was Turn On, Or Turn Me Down, the only album made by psychedelic blues rock band N.S.U.. Hailing from Glasgow, and setting out their stall by taking their name from the first track on the first Cream album, they recorded the album over 3 days in February 1969 at De Lane Lea in Holborn, London, a cuttng edge studio where Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd had also recorded. In their 2017 Buried Treasure feature on the album, Classic Rock magazine highlighted guitarist Ernest Rea’s “glorious ashes of acid-fuzz soloing”. The album features eight original band compositions together with their 8 minute version of the old blues song On The Road Again, popularised by Canned Heat.